Superficial candidiasis
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Description:
The term "superficial candidiasis" combines the damages of visible mucous membranes, skin and its appendages caused by Candida mushrooms. Usually it is those forms of a kandidny infection which (apart from pediatrics) demand the address to the dermatologist. Superficial forms of a kandidny infection are also kandidny keratitis, blepharites, outside otitises.
Symptoms of Superficial candidiasis:
The symptomatology is various depending on localization - candidiasis of skin, mucous membrane of a mouth, a candidosis balanoposthitis, a kandidny allergy, etc.
Reasons of Superficial candidiasis:
84% of an etiology of modern candidiasis are the share by sight C. albicans, 9% – of C. parapsilosis; on 2% – on C. tropicalis and C. krusei, 1% – on C. glabrata. The leading triad of types of C. albicans, sensitive to modern antimycotics, C. parapsilosis and C. tropicalis made more than 95% of an etiology of candidiasis of all localizations.
Treatment of Superficial candidiasis:
In treatment of superficial candidiasis of skin it is possible to allocate three main directions. The first and the most popular – destruction of activators in the defeat center. About other two directions necessary for treatment, doctors quite often forget. One of them – destruction of an endogenous source of the activator in intestines or urinogenital ways. Another – correction of the states contributing to a kandidny intertrigo.
